What are you doing to play a part in preventing gentrification?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What did anyone do for that father who got beaten ti within an inch of his life by the local kids? Nothing.
DC Council issued a statement? Nope.

Yes, the dad basically said he didn’t want to pursue punishment because he empathized with their plight. I also live in the middle of the city and if anyone hit me with a brick, I am pressing charges. Accusations of not being woke or what have you don’t phase me. You can’t just allow violent crime out of some misguided attempt to right past wrongs or poor childhoods or whatever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What did anyone do for that father who got beaten ti within an inch of his life by the local kids? Nothing.
DC Council issued a statement? Nope.

Yes, the dad basically said he didn’t want to pursue punishment because he empathized with their plight. I also live in the middle of the city and if anyone hit me with a brick, I am pressing charges. Accusations of not being woke or what have you don’t phase me. You can’t just allow violent crime out of some misguided attempt to right past wrongs or poor childhoods or whatever.

Oops I guess the brick hurling was a different incident. I was thinking about this: https://www.petworthnews.org/blog/assault-decatur

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Many (?!) and how much?
What are these good middle schools and high schools now that weren’t 10 years ago?

Stuart Hobson is better than it used to be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What did anyone do for that father who got beaten ti within an inch of his life by the local kids? Nothing.
DC Council issued a statement? Nope.

Yes, the dad basically said he didn’t want to pursue punishment because he empathized with their plight. I also live in the middle of the city and if anyone hit me with a brick, I am pressing charges. Accusations of not being woke or what have you don’t phase me. You can’t just allow violent crime out of some misguided attempt to right past wrongs or poor childhoods or whatever.

Is that why? Or did he maybe suspect someone would set the house on fire next? He still has to live next to his attackers.

[Anonymous]

“ What the couple has pieced together from the blood trail in the alley, John’s injuries and police discussions is that John was knocked out by the first punch, thrown down the rest of the stairs and "stomped out" as the police told them — kicked in the body and face repeatedly.

A neighbor’s camera footage shows the kids leaving the alley shortly after, “Strolling with no sense of urgency or fear, though John was unconscious and bleeding badly a few feet behind them,” Jane said.

On a video recorded by a neighbor’s security camera, the teens can be heard exclaiming how the video on one of their phones was still on and recording during the assault. “I had my phone still recording!” one boy says. “You ain’t move it?” the other asks. “Yeah,” the first boy responded. (Petworth News verified the audio from the security footage — though the video did not capture the assault.)

John had six bones broken in his face, including his orbital bone, nose and jaw, and had most of his front lower teeth broken. “There was so much blood that it has seeped into the concrete in the alley and won't go away, despite cleaning,” Jane said. “My children will see it.”
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“We believe in the city, believe in staying here,” Jane said. She said her first reaction was to leave — sell the house. Run. For the first time, she thought “Can we afford Bethesda? Can we afford Takoma Park or Silver Spring?”

Curious if they sold.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“ What the couple has pieced together from the blood trail in the alley, John’s injuries and police discussions is that John was knocked out by the first punch, thrown down the rest of the stairs and "stomped out" as the police told them — kicked in the body and face repeatedly.

A neighbor’s camera footage shows the kids leaving the alley shortly after, “Strolling with no sense of urgency or fear, though John was unconscious and bleeding badly a few feet behind them,” Jane said.

On a video recorded by a neighbor’s security camera, the teens can be heard exclaiming how the video on one of their phones was still on and recording during the assault. “I had my phone still recording!” one boy says. “You ain’t move it?” the other asks. “Yeah,” the first boy responded. (Petworth News verified the audio from the security footage — though the video did not capture the assault.)

John had six bones broken in his face, including his orbital bone, nose and jaw, and had most of his front lower teeth broken. “There was so much blood that it has seeped into the concrete in the alley and won't go away, despite cleaning,” Jane said. “My children will see it.”
…

“We believe in the city, believe in staying here,” Jane said. She said her first reaction was to leave — sell the house. Run. For the first time, she thought “Can we afford Bethesda? Can we afford Takoma Park or Silver Spring?”

Curious if they sold.

There should be no place for such racial hate, wherever it may be coming from.

[Anonymous]

“You ain’t move it?”
Is that a DCPS education in action or just more authentic DC cultchah?

[Anonymous]

What are you doing to play a part in preventing gentrification?

Nothing, nada, zilch.

Gentrification in DC: Bring it on!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why would someone protest gentrification? You think certain neighborhoods should be racially exclusive?

Gentrification causes people to lack homes.

Not working causes people to lack homes. Bartenders can live in gentrified neighborhoods, so stop whining and get a job.

Yeah right, just working any job will allow someone to get approved for a $1400/month apt

I just don't get your argument. There are plenty of neighborhoods I can't afford to live in, including the one I grew up in and places my family lived in the past. That's life, not a tragedy. No one is entitled to live exactly where they want.

“There is always inequity in life,” President Kennedy said. “Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded, and some men never leave the country, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It’s very hard in military or in personal life to assure complete equality. Life is unfair.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What did anyone do for that father who got beaten ti within an inch of his life by the local kids? Nothing.
DC Council issued a statement? Nope.

Yes, the dad basically said he didn’t want to pursue punishment because he empathized with their plight. I also live in the middle of the city and if anyone hit me with a brick, I am pressing charges. Accusations of not being woke or what have you don’t phase me. You can’t just allow violent crime out of some misguided attempt to right past wrongs or poor childhoods or whatever.

Empathize with what now? Remember that the whole problem is that these kids empathize with NOBODY.

[Anonymous]

You can empathize all you want but if it's emboldening crime then not pressing charges is causing someone else the same fate and they may become disabled for life or die. Any empathy for them?

[Anonymous]

Idk if its empathy for the perpetrator either. If they don't face consequences and get help now then they'll eventually end up as criminals.

Anyone older than a toddler needs to know they can't hit people, its insane and criminal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Idk if its empathy for the perpetrator either. If they don't face consequences and get help now then they'll eventually end up as criminals.

Anyone older than a toddler needs to know they can't hit people, its insane and criminal.

+1 There are good kids in that neighborhood who would be helped by getting the criminals out

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why would someone protest gentrification? You think certain neighborhoods should be racially exclusive?

Gentrification causes people to lack homes.

boo hoo

Wow. What a shocking level of callousness toward unhoused people. Those same people who you call the cops on simply for existing!

Cuz financially better off people don’t really care especially in NOVA

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“ What the couple has pieced together from the blood trail in the alley, John’s injuries and police discussions is that John was knocked out by the first punch, thrown down the rest of the stairs and "stomped out" as the police told them — kicked in the body and face repeatedly.

A neighbor’s camera footage shows the kids leaving the alley shortly after, “Strolling with no sense of urgency or fear, though John was unconscious and bleeding badly a few feet behind them,” Jane said.

On a video recorded by a neighbor’s security camera, the teens can be heard exclaiming how the video on one of their phones was still on and recording during the assault. “I had my phone still recording!” one boy says. “You ain’t move it?” the other asks. “Yeah,” the first boy responded. (Petworth News verified the audio from the security footage — though the video did not capture the assault.)

John had six bones broken in his face, including his orbital bone, nose and jaw, and had most of his front lower teeth broken. “There was so much blood that it has seeped into the concrete in the alley and won't go away, despite cleaning,” Jane said. “My children will see it.”
…

“We believe in the city, believe in staying here,” Jane said. She said her first reaction was to leave — sell the house. Run. For the first time, she thought “Can we afford Bethesda? Can we afford Takoma Park or Silver Spring?”

Curious if they sold.

The fact that the kids did this so casually tells me this is probably not the first time they've done something like that. And no amount of shrugging, handwaving, mumbling about "systemic injustice" or "resentment toward gentrification" can ever excuse that kind of violence. I'm never going to move one inch in the direction of accepting that, and I don't think anyone else should accept it, either.